| The Dangerous Summer Contributor(s): Hemingway, Ernest (Author) |
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ISBN: 0684837897 ISBN-13: 9780684837895 Publisher: Scribner Book Company OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1997 Annotation: Hemingway's last major literary work, this dramatic and moving chronicle of a season of bullfights in Spain, and of the author's friendship with one of the most daring men ever to enter the ring, shines with "moments . . . of purest Hemingway--when what is said suggests a whole universe that is unsaid" (Robert Wilson, "USA Today"). photo inserts. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Literary Criticism |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 97018113 |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.52" W x 8.45" (0.54 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1950's - Cultural Region - Western Europe |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Experience Hemingway's firsthand chronicle of a brutal season of bullfights in Spain. In the 1950s, Hemingway and his wife return to Spain, where Hemingway had visited before as a war correspondent to cover the Spanish Civil War, in order to see friends and follow bullfighting events. Hemingway's time in Spain is most often remembered as his experiences with bullfighting, his passion often conveyed through his writing. He and his wife follow summer-long series events and witness the complexities and danger within the bullfighting community. In this vivid account, Hemingway captures the exhausting pace and pressure of the season, the camaraderie and pride of the matadors, and the mortal drama as in fight after fight the rival matadors try to outdo each other with ever more daring performances. At the same time, Hemingway offers an often complex and deeply personal self-portrait that reveals much about one of the twentieth century's preeminent writers. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hemingway, Ernest: - Ernest Hemingway did more to influence the style of English prose than any other writer of his time. Publication of The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms immediately established him as one of the greatest literary lights of the 20th century. His classic novella The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. He died in 1961. |